Larry Kramer Quotes
Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.Larry Kramer
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
Patricia Ireland -
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
Sam Raimi -
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
Barry Eichengreen -
It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
Rand Paul -
In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
Nadia Comaneci -
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
Marat Safin -
I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
Manish Dayal -
After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
C. L. R. James -
I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
Damien Hirst -
You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
Patrick Lencioni -
I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
Ja Rule -
It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
Pankaj Patel -
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
Patricia Polacco -
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
Utah Phillips
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I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
Aaron Paul -
There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.
Natalie Cole -
I'll never be Jennifer Lawrence or Tom Cruise, someone who can hold a movie and then be charming and charismatic doing promotion. I haven't got what they've got. But at least I'm now comfortable just being myself.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.
Matt Bomer -
I want my mom on 'Scream Queens'. She could play someone who is convinced she's Princess Leila. That could be her disease, and then as a plot twist, we could find out that she actually is Princess Leila.
Billie Lourd -
Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
Larry Kramer